The Treaty of Hartford did not merely settle a boundary dispute. It transformed a century-old colonial controversy into a legal framework that created Greater Western New York and converted uncertainty into opportunity. How did this little-noticed agreement set the stage for the region’s first statehood movement? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary, “The Birth Of Western New York: Treaty of Hartford Explained,” to discover how a winter negotiation in Hartford gave Greater Western New York its first legal identity and transformed a disputed frontier into a marketable asset.
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